Newsflash: Housework is boring.
You all may have already known that, or perhaps you’re in that rare and wonderful number who finds pleasure in cleaning. I had a friend who enjoyed vacuuming so much she vacuumed herself out of a room so all the stripes were going the same direction. I don’t even know what to do with that.
My daughter in Arizona had surgery and is recovering wonderfully, but she is forbidden to lift anything for eight weeks and her husband had earlier scheduled a Lindblad cruise (National Geographic) to Antarctica and of course it fell in the middle of all that.
I went down for all the reasons: She’s my baby, sooner or later she’s going to need clean clothes, we got to have mother/daughter bonding time without the guys… So I flew down and Did the Stuff. Which is, as I said, boring. No wonder I write books full of adventure, romance and humor!
To get to the point: They have a top-loading washing machine which is so deep after I do a load I have to stand on my head to get the wet clothes out. Seriously, I can keep only one foot on the ground, and stretching toward the back is an exercise in, um, stretching.
Here’s my question: What moron designed this? Yes, I’m 5’2” which is “petite.” But I’ve met many other people who are shorter, including young teens who I’ve personally taught to do their laundry (yes, my daughters who both grew to a lovely 5’5”.) Can someone, anyone explain to me what the designer was thinking? “It’s going to have a sensor, a steam function, a thousand different settings no one will ever use, and it’ll play music and boast a confusing number of beeps and boops, but how can we make ourselves stand out from the competition? Wait! I’ve got it! We’re going to put in a tub so deep some woman will fall in and get sick during the spin cycle!”
Whew. Thanks for listening. The Husband and I have a front loader, by the way.
Newsflash #2! And #3! And #4!
A Bookbub caught me by surprise! Until December 8, 2024, A DAUGHTER OF FAIR VERONA eBook is $1.99 online everywhere!
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when you have so many books to read,
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Finally… while on his trip, my son-in-law continually sent photos of penguins, icebergs, 🥶 the exquisite food (what possibly made us most surly — they serve high tea every afternoon), the beautiful icy seas and himself in cold weather clothes looking absolutely thrilled to be on the Lindblad National Geographic Antarctica cruise. Talk about annoying!
However, he did not see Santa Claus. That’s the North Pole. 😁
Until next time, relax, read, enjoy your holidays, and above all, avoid housework!
Christina Dodd, who after doing the laundry, cooking dinner, cleaning the kitchen, loading and unloading the dishwasher in AZ, called The Husband and told him I don’t appreciate him enough.
Not The Husband and Christina 🤣
Christina Dodd
New York Times bestselling author of the
Daughter of Montague series.
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“I’ll give you an idea how bad my cooking really is. Last Christmas my family chipped in and bought me an oven that flushes.” —Phyllis Diller
